They Said That?!

The rap on [Howard] Dean is that he’s like Dukakis and Mondale and McGovern. Well McGovern was a liberal but we had an issue and that was the war. Dukakis was no liberal and neither was Mondale. Both of them had several people to the left in those primaries. It was what the Republicans did to them once they got the nomination that made them seem to be liberals in both cases.  * Former NBC and CNN reporter Ken Bode on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show August 10.

Kneeling Before Hillary (I)

You became First Lady like no other First Lady before you. You had your own interests you got involved in public policy. No First Lady had done that without being severely criticized. Did you realize what you were getting into?….I don’t think people realize how strong your faith is.?  * Barbara Walters to Sen. Hillary Clinton in a June 8 ABC special promoting her book Living History.

Kneeling Before Hillary (II)

Senator Hillary Clinton is at Ground Zero this morning to attend the September 11th anniversary ceremony and she joins us now. Good morning Senator Clinton….You’ve fought so much for the heroes of 9/11. You have sought money for firefighters you’ve taken the EPA to task for toning down their report on air quality at Ground Zero. Has enough been done for the heroes the people who fought so bravely on that day?  * CBS’s Hannah Storm to Hillary Clinton on The Early Show September 11.

Kneeling Before Hillary (III)

Bob Costas: How from where you sit have you maintained your dignity and how can you be so controlled under circumstances that would be trying for the best of us?…If you became president what kind of First Gentleman would Bill Clinton be?…What are your best and worst qualities as a politician?  Senator Hillary Clinton: Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.  * Exchange on HBO?s On the Record with Bob Costas July 18.

Leftist Protesters = Superpower

The size of the demonstrators at least here at least in Europe seems to underscore Chris that there are now perhaps two world superpowers. There’s the United States and then there are those millions of people who took to the streets opposing U.S. policy.  * MSNBC’s David Shuster to Hardball host Chris Matthews February 17.

Wow Wish We’d Been There

It was a party a hundred thousand strong flowing haltingly below the slated mansard roofs of Paris’s stately avenues accompanied by balloons and banners and vendors selling foot-long hot dogs and fries. If there is one thing the French know how to do it is how to conduct a demonstration.

Ladies in stiletto heels and fur-fringed jackets fathers pushing strollers trailing McDonald’s balloons drably dressed union members students in face paint and carnival clothes – all turned out to make some noise. Yet despite the gay atmosphere beneath a brilliant blue sky the message was stark even dark. The United States is a barbarian country shouted some. Bush let’s murder shouted others. One group chanted Bush Blair Sharon Putin Chirac: Justice in Palestine don’t touch Iraq.  * Introduction of Craig Smith’s February 16 New York Times story about anti-war protests in Paris headlined Throwing a Party With a Purpose.

Just Another ‘Objective’ Reporter

This is the worst president ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst president in all of American history.  * Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas at a Society for Professional Journalism banquet as quoted by the Torrance California Daily Breeze’s John Bogert in a January 19 story.